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Hussein Al-Bahadili

Hussein Al-Bahadili received his B.Sc degree in Engineering from College of Engineering (University of Baghdad, Iraq) in 1986. He received his M.Sc and PhD degrees in Engineering from Queen Mary College (University of London, UK) in 1988 and 1991, respectively. His field of study was parallel computers. He is currently working as an Associate Professor at Petra University, Jordan. He is a visiting researcher at the Wireless Networks and Communications Centre (WNCC) at the University of Brunel, UK. He is also a visiting researcher at the School of Engineering, University of Surrey, UK. He has published many papers and book chapters in different fields of science and engineering in numerous leading scholarly and practitioner journals, books, and presented at leading world-level scholarly conferences. His research interests include parallel and distributed computing, wireless communications, computer networks, cryptography and network security, data compression, image processing, and artificial intelligence and expert systems.

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Competition-Based Learning: A Model for the Integration of Competitions with Project-Based Learning using Open Source LMS

In an effort to enhance the learning process in higher education, a new model for Competition-Based Learning (CBL) is presented. The new model utilizes two well-known learning...

Trust Determination in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Wireless ad hoc networks are susceptible to attacks by malicious nodes that could easily bring down the whole network. Therefore, it is important to have a reliable mechanism for...

A Location-Based Power Conservation Scheme for MANETs: A Step towards Green Communications

In a Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET), a mobile node consumes its power in message communication, message processing, and other operation missions. The amount of power a mobile node...

Competition-Based Learning: A Model for the Integration of Competitions with Project-Based Learning using Open Source LMS

In an effort to enhance the learning process in higher education, a new model for Competition-Based Learning (CBL) is presented. The new model utilizes two well-known learning...

A Novel Dynamic Noise-Dependent Probabilistic Algorithm for Route Discovery in MANETs

In mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), broadcasting is widely used in route discovery and other network services. The most widely used broadcasting algorithm is simple flooding...

Development of a Novel Compressed Index-Query Web Search Engine Model

In this paper, the authors present a description of a new Web search engine model, the compressed index-query (CIQ) Web search engine model. This model incorporates two bit-level...

A Hybrid Port-Knocking Technique for Host Authentication

This chapter presents the detail description of a Port-Knocking (PK) technique, which should avert all types of port attacks and meets all other network security requirements....

Investigating the Performance of the TSS Scheme in Noisy MANETs

A Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) suffers from high packet-loss due to various transmission impairments, such as: wireless signal attenuation, free space loss, thermal noise...

The Architecture and Analysis of a New Cloud Collaborative Commerce Model

Cloud Computing IT infrastructure has the potential to be particularly suitable for collaborative commerce (c-commerce) applications; because it generally requires less efforts...

Simulation in Computer Network Design and Modeling: Use and Analysis

Computer networks have become essential to the survival of businesses, organizations, and educational institutions, as the number of network users, services, and applications has...

Simulation of a Dynamic-Noise-Dependent Probabilistic Algorithm in MANETs

In the current dynamic probabilistic algorithm, the retransmission probability (pt) has always been formulated as a linear/non-linear function of a single variable, namely, the...

A Location-Based Power Conservation Scheme for MANETs: A Step towards Green Communications

In a Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET), a mobile node consumes its power in message communication, message processing, and other operation missions. The amount of power a mobile node...

Comparing Various Route Discovery Algorithms in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

Dynamic (reactive or on-demand) routing protocols used in wireless ad hoc networks suffer from transmitting a huge number of control packets during the route discovery phase of...

Modeling of TCP Reno with Packet-Loss and Long Delay Cycles

The Transport Control Protocol (TCP) is the dominant transport layer protocol in the Internet Protocol (IP) suite, as it carries a significant amount of the Internet traffic...